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...years, Galloway says, the mostly white suburbs around Buffalo have been hostile to minorities. Security guards and police keep blacks under surveillance, he claims, and even have a special lingo for this detail. "Radio calls would say, 'We are stopping a unit," Galloway says, "which is an acronym for 'Unwanted Nigger In Town.'" (Police deny using this term...
...sponsors' names. There is the Year of Glad, the Year of Dairy Products from the American Heartland, the Year of the Depend Adult Undergarment. The technology of pleasure has driven people deeper into themselves. There is a new political structure known as the Organization of North American Nations whose acronym is ONAN...
They will be part of a roughly 60,000-strong NATO contingent, known by the acronym I-FOR (Implementation Force), which will enforce peace for up to one year. As a concession to Moscow's touchiness about being locked out of a region where it has historic ties, Russian troops may participate as well, although their role has yet to be determined. "We are proposing a powerful force," said Perry. "If attacked by anyone, it will bring a large hammer down on them. It will be the biggest, the toughest and the meanest dog in town." In keeping with...
Aside, perhaps, from its somewhat unfortunate acronym--sounding like a heavy black disk to be slapped around--the Progressive Undergraduate Council Coalition (PUCC) has the right spirit but an unbelievably flawed approach...
...there was nothing simple, or certain, about Suu Kyi's liberty. It was tempting to imagine a Burmese equivalent of the release of Nelson Mandela: in other words, a signal that the 21 generals who govern the country through the State Law and Order Restoration Council, known by the acronym SLORC, intend to take Burma in a new direction with some important, if undefined, role for the steely lady...